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Often look at heavy smokers and think it must take great effort being a smoker these days.
You have :
Constant Smell and Stink of hair, clothes - not to mention what their houses and cars must be like! ~ I wash my clothes and my hair. I don't smoke in the house or any vehicles.
Smokers generally look older, and have aged more That's ridiculous and wrong.
Health Damage, and continuing health damage, plus higher risk of every disease. ~ Not true. Higher risk of some diseases, perhaps.
Anti Smoking Campaigns on TV etc - constant propaganda against smoking ? What? ......So? What's your point? I've also got PETA telling me not to go have KFC!
Non Smokers looking down their nose you. ~ Who gives a rat's a$$! Don't come around me if they feel that way.
At work, going out to smoke then coming back stinking of smoke, plus people making remarks your not working ~ Screw them.
Waking up with a cough, and wheezing all the time
having to go outside to smoke on a nightout, I don't do that. I don't ever smoke where it will bother others, either.
Smoker will literally go out and smoke in ANY weather ! How pathetic! Nahhh. Pathetic is being afraid to appreciate the rain. Smoking is irrelevant to whether you don't mind the rain or not.
Being worried about a long flight without cigarettes ~ I don't fly. To me, that is more of a risk than smoking. I sure wouldn't knock anyone for flying.
Or not being able to buy cigarettes for prolonged period ~ Huh? Why would someone not be able to buy cigarettes? They're widely available....
All for a little buzz of nicotine. ~ Buzz? What "buzz"? ....
It just proves how easily people can be brainwashed by advertisers into taking up, and continuing with harmful, and dirty habit, and paying lots for the privilege - I say this as being some who used to smoke - There is no addiction, your just enjoy it like a fat person who enjoys eating too much ~ LOL!You're so wrong and here you are, flaunting it.
This addiction is typical of people who don't take responsibility for their actions, their "addicted", its not their fault - so can't go without smoking on a long flight - but can sleep for more than 8 hours without smoking. ~ You're a regular riot, Mikey....a riot!
To be honest I don't hate smokers - I feel sorry for them that they have been brainwashed into believing their are addicted.
~ To be equally honest, us smokers don't give a crap what you think!
I'm not brainwashed, Mikey. So don't you worry about me or the others that like to smoke. We'll do what we want to do, just like you do. It's our freedom and our right.
~ To be equally honest, us smokers don't give a crap what you think!
I'm not brainwashed, Mikey. So don't you worry about me or the others that like to smoke. We'll do what we want to do, just like you do. It's our freedom and our right.
OK then - I'll leave you to your smelly little world.
I can read up about it all day - the point are smokers really "addicted" - I don't believe they are, its more of a habit that is mildly addictive. Are you telling me they are a heroin addict or something - completely helpless - like a week without smoking and they would go into mental breakdown - I don't think so.
For gods sake stop making excuses, your not addicted, your just enjoy it - You'd be better saying I just enjoy it, than coming out with some brainwashed rubbish about being "addicted" - Totally Pathetic!!!!!!!
yes quitting smoking is as hard and as addicitve as getting off hard core drugs. people have physical withdrawal that is so hard most can't do it successfully. which is why they have quit smoking aids such as the patch and pills. your refusal to believe that smoking is addictive and difficult to quit is burying your head in the sand. not liking smoking is one thing but to not have any empathy for an addicted smoker is something else all together
yes quitting smoking is as hard and as addicitve as getting off hard core drugs. people have physical withdrawal that is so hard most can't do it successfully. which is why they have quit smoking aids such as the patch and pills. your refusal to believe that smoking is addictive and difficult to quit is burying your head in the sand. not liking smoking is one thing but to not have any empathy for an addicted smoker is something else all together
I would be willing to bet that empathy was the furthest thing from the OPs mind.
I would also like to quote one of your lines in case you forgot from your thread...
"Thats very true - its amazing the people who will actually attack you for being overweight - often don't want you to lose weight for fear of you looking better than them.
We live in a society of naysayers who love nothing more than to discourage, and disillusion others."
You should try and live by your words KingMikey instead of flaming people for smoking
what I dont understand about smokers is the reason they got started in the first place.....that is what is so stupid. Especially in young people, that is the people I view as the idiots, because they knew of the addictiveness and the effect it can have on a person's health yet they still made the choice to start smoking. Not saying they dont have the freedom to make that choice, because they do, but dont expect me to feel sorry for them when they get cancer, because I wont.
I would also like to quote one of your lines in case you forgot from your thread...
"Thats very true - its amazing the people who will actually attack you for being overweight - often don't want you to lose weight for fear of you looking better than them.
We live in a society of naysayers who love nothing more than to discourage, and disillusion others."
You should try and live by your words KingMikey instead of flaming people for smoking
Well there is difference - eating is a natural activity - and animals can get overweight.
Chain smoking is not... Look its your choice to smoke no one is saying that you can't its legal.
I just object to smokers playing this helpless thing of being addicted - like its not their responsibility - I far rather they do it because they enjoy it.
Hey maybe - that means I am "addicted" to junk food and surfing the net... not my responsibility I am just a helpless addict.
what I dont understand about smokers is the reason they got started in the first place.....that is what is so stupid. Especially in young people, that is the people I view as the idiots, because they knew of the addictiveness and the effect it can have on a person's health yet they still made the choice to start smoking. Not saying they dont have the freedom to make that choice, because they do, but dont expect me to feel sorry for them when they get cancer, because I wont.
Well, allrighty then. But if you ever do have an interest in understanding why young people start smoking, Malcolm Gladwell addresses one theory in his book The Tipping Point.
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...So? What's your point? 
I've also got PETA telling me not to go have KFC! 
Nicotine is the best drug on earth. 
